As a professor at Tsinghua University, PU Yi-Kang is responsible for several research programs and the supervision of several graduate students at both BIT and Tsinghua University. He is currently conducting research on the plasma deposition of semiconductor thin films. From 1988 to 1994, he worked as a senior scientist at Spire Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. Since then, he has been periodically appointed as a visiting scientist by the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. After receiving a bachelor's degree from the radio and electronics department of the University of Science and Technology of China (1982), he went to the United States to pursue graduate studies in physics. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988).